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Start Date Tue, February 26, 2019 @ 10:00 AM
End Date Thu, March 28, 2019 @ 5:00 PM
Location The Cuyahoga Valley Art Center

Human Figure Exhibition

The subject matter of the displayed artworks are all related to the human figure. CVAC is excited reveal the breadth of interests and investigations from our participants within this juried exhibition. Our Juror TBA has the difficult job of jurying the submissions and selecting the Best of Show, Second-place, Third-place and honorable mentions of this exhibition.

This exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday, February 26th and runs through March 28th.  Awards will be distributed as the winners are celebrated during the Human Figure Exhibition Artists Reception on Friday, March 15th from 5:30-7:00 PM. Patrons will have the opportunity to mingle with the artists, enjoy refreshments and hors d’oeuvres and purchase art during this free reception.


JUROR:

Prof. Patrick Melnick
Dean of Academic Affairs and General Education Department Chair

As the Dean of Academic Affairs at The North Coast College, Professor Melnick teaches Anatomy and Figure Drawing, History of Art, Idea Generation, and Neuroscience of Creativity. An instructor for more than 30 years, he earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Notre Dame. His career includes the production and coordination of numerous art shows, both locally and nationally. Professor Melnick worked as a curatorial assistant at the internationally recognized Zaks Gallery in Chicago. He also served as a judge on the board of Madison, Wisconsin’s National Endowment of the Arts Council. His broad range of expertise in a wide variety of knowledge domains has ensured him a unique position on the academic guest lecture circuit, which capitalizes on connecting previously unconnected things to explain creativity, insight, and solutions.


Winners:

FIRST-PLACE

MARK GIANGASPERO

STOW, OH

Shelly        

Oil Based Media

$800

 

“Great technical skill merges with an uncomfortable if not horrifying reality. The beauty of human endurance, human survival, and human will is stunningly and confrontationally combined with the traditional portraiture of a Holbein.”

Patrick Melnick

SECOND-PLACE

ROBERT GOLDTHWAITE

KENT, OH

Voice of Reason

Water Based Media

$200

 

“Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica taught us the importance of abstraction and abstracting the human for: extreme emotions are able to be expressed more tangible. This particular work accomplishes that particularly well.”

– Patrick Melnick

THIRD-PLACE

GERNA ISLEY

TALLMADGE, OH

Joshua      

Dry Media

NFS

 

“There are so many levels of audacity in this work. It’s pompous beyond belief in technique and style. Yet, the rendering of the 16th century doublet is pure abstraction juxtaposed with the realism of the face and ruff collar. The artist has boldly taken what we view as “passé” art and forced it upon us. Bravo.”

– Patrick Melnick

HONORABLE MENTION

TERRIE HALEY

AKRON, OH

One With All

Water Based Media

$ 295

 

“Beautiful richness of texture and color which alludes to something ethereal or alien-like with the amorphous humanoid forms and the vertical shaft of yellow countered by the “heavenly” scumbled white in two corners. Bach’s Fugue in D minor comes to mind.”                                                                         – Patrick Melnick

HONORABLE MENTION

LINDA HUTCHINSON

KENT, OH

Winter is Long in Canada

Oil Based Media

$ 1,900

 

“The simplicity of the pose, the simplicity of the compositions diagonal movement is countered beautifully with the complexity of layer: opacity and transparency, impasto and wash. Further there is the wonderful countering of warm and cool hues.”

– Patrick Melnick

HONORABLE MENTION

TRICIA KAMAN

CHAGRIN FALLS, OH

On Her Tuffet

Oil Based Media

$1,800

 

“This painting shouldn’t work, yet it does so beautifully. The mundane pose of the figure in the center of the canvas is a sure-fire death knoll. Then the artist does the impossible. The table, block-like pedestal, and design of the rug whirled around the figure creates a vortex of banality which takes the ordinary to a new place.”                                                                                                      – Patrick Melnick

THE NORTH COAST COLLAGE AWARD

DON PARSISSON

AKRON, OH

The Danger and The Demons

3-Dimensional

$400

 

“The Cycladic head forms from 3,000 B.C., Brancusi’s Bird in Flight from 1928, and Anselm Keifer’s Lot’s Wife from 1989 all come together to form a baroque minimalist sculpture of isolation, vulnerability and transformation.”

– Patrick Melnick


Exhibition Catalog: 2019 Human Figure Exhibition Catalogue


Accepted Submissions:

FULL NAME CITY, STATE TITLE CATEGORY PRICE
SAMANTHA BIAS SILVER LAKE, OH Spirited Away WATERCOLOR MEDIA NFS
SAMANTHA BIAS SILVER LAKE, OH Whispers of The Heart WATERCOLOR MEDIA NFS
JOSHUA CHULA CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH Death of Man OIL BASED MEDIA $300
JULIA CLINE BRECKSVILLE, OH Sol Invictus PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIA NFS
KYLE CROSSLAND CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH Of The Stars MIXED MEDIA $1,000
KYLE CROSSLAND CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH Self Empowerment WATER BASED MEDIA $300
JODY CROW CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH Child’s Play OIL BASED MEDIA $400
SHEILA R DORRIS CHAGRIN FALLS, OH Ubiquitous Gaze OIL BASED MEDIA $4,500
SHEILA R DORRIS CHAGRIN FALLS, OH After The Gardening’s Done DRY MEDIA $2,700
ANN EMMITT TALLMADGE, OH Dreams Of Janis DRY MEDIA $500
ANN EMMITT TALLMADGE, OH Lacey DRY MEDIA $450
JEANNE FASHEMPOUR MEDINA, OH Soulmate MIXED MEDIA NFS
BARBARA LEIGHTON FAULKNER HUDSON, OH Cecilia DRY MEDIA $350
MAGGIE FRAME TALLMADGE, OH Number 23 WATERCOLOR MEDIA $185
MARK GIANGASPERO STOW, OH Shelley OIL BASED MEDIA $800
ROBERT GOLDTHWAITE KENT, OH Dance WATER BASED MEDIA $200
ROBERT GOLDTHWAITE KENT, OH Voice of Reason WATER BASED MEDIA $200
TERRIE HALEY AKRON, OH One With All WATER BASED MEDIA $295
TERRIE HALEY AKRON, OH Cold Day At The Geysir WATER BASED MEDIA $195
KAREN HARCOURT AKRON, OH The Joy of Dance WATERCOLOR MEDIA $100
KAREN HARCOURT AKRON, OH Ballet Shoes WATERCOLOR MEDIA $60
JEANNE HENDERSON BRECKSVILLE, OH Dina DRY MEDIA $400
JEANNE HENDERSON BRECKSVILLE, OH Dress Rehearsal OIL BASED MEDIA $800
SALLY HESTON BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, OH The Contemplator DRY MEDIA $400
SALLY HESTON BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, OH Navy Sweetheart WATERCOLOR MEDIA $350
JACK HICKSON BARBERTON, OH Me… Singapore 2015 WATERCOLOR MEDIA NFS
JACK HICKSON BARBERTON, OH “The World Was Hers for The Reading” Betty Smith MIXED MEDIA NFS
LINDA HUTCHINSON KENT, OH New Hat Old Mirror Old Self Same Old Self MIXED MEDIA $325
LINDA HUTCHINSON KENT, OH Winter Is Long In Canada OIL BASED MEDIA $1,900
GERNA ISLEY TALLMADGE, OH Joshua DRY MEDIA NFS
GERNA ISLEY TALLMADGE, OH Distinguished DRY MEDIA NFS
DON JEFFREY AKRON, OH The Fight WATER BASED MEDIA $200
DON JEFFREY AKRON, OH Old Time Baseball WATERCOLOR MEDIA $75
TRICIA KAMAN CHAGRIN FALLS, OH On Her Tuffet OIL BASED MEDIA $1,800
TRICIA KAMAN CHAGRIN FALLS, OH Fancy Pants OIL BASED MEDIA $1,200
DAVID KRANTZ KENT, OH Diane And Dave On Bongos WATERCOLOR MEDIA NFS
TOM MAYER MOGADORE, OH Simon Girty At Fort Laurens Oh 2018 WATERCOLOR MEDIA $200
TOM MAYER MOGADORE, OH Civil War Followers WATERCOLOR MEDIA $250
PATRICK MELNICK THE NORTH COAST COLLAGE Figure 1 DRY MEDIA NFS
PATRICK MELNICK THE NORTH COAST COLLAGE Figure 2 DRY MEDIA NFS
PATRICK MELNICK THE NORTH COAST COLLAGE Grandma Two Days Before Death DRY MEDIA NFS
SUSAN MENCINI CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH All For Love WATER BASED MEDIA $175
JENNIFER NEWYEAR RICHFIELD, OH Cold Feet OIL BASED MEDIA $600
DON PARSISSON AKRON, OH The Danger And The Demons SCULPTURE $150
DON PARSISSON AKRON, OH You’re The One That I Love MIXED MEDIA NFS
ROXANNE RODWELL AKRON, OH Black Hat And Beads OIL BASED MEDIA NFS
ROXANNE RODWELL AKRON, OH Sunny Day Hat DRY MEDIA NFS
JEROLD SMITH SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH Standing Female DRY MEDIA $350
JEROLD SMITH SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH Seated Male DRY MEDIA $350
MARIE STEELE AKRON, OH Drawing For Repose DRY MEDIA $400
KATHERINE STOKES-SHAFER STRONGSVILLE, OH Figure MIXED MEDIA NFS
KATHERINE STOKES-SHAFER STRONGSVILLE, OH Contemplation WATER BASED MEDIA NFS
CAROLYN THOMPSON AKRON, OH Male Nude DRY MEDIA $400
CAROLYN THOMPSON AKRON, OH Brandy DRY MEDIA $250
PATRICE VARZELLE LAKEWOOD, OH In A Corner DRY MEDIA $280
CATHY VOGEL WADSWORTH, OH The Fair-Haired Boy WATERCOLOR MEDIA NFS
CATHY VOGEL WADSWORTH, OH The Engagement WATERCOLOR MEDIA NFS
RICHARD WILLETT TALLMADGE, OH Viola Da Gamba WATERCOLOR MEDIA $120
RICHARD WILLETT TALLMADGE, OH Serenity DRY MEDIA NFS
BETTY J WOLFE CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH Angie WATER BASED MEDIA $700
BETTY J WOLFE CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH Javon WATER BASED MEDIA $700

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